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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER ONE<br />

The novel has lone been associated with what<br />

Mendilow described as the time arts which "represent<br />

actions evolvine in sequences" (12).<br />

G'rard Genette has<br />

also written a lone stud¥ of time in the novel in which<br />

he focuses on the arraneement of the events of a<br />

narrative in terms of their order. duration. and<br />

freQuenc¥ (13).<br />

However. the startine point for this<br />

anal¥sis will be Crnjanski's own comments on time in<br />

relation to lancuace. literar¥ st¥le. and the meanincs<br />

of histor¥ which he liehts upon in two of his earl¥<br />

ess&¥s. "Objalnjenje 'Sumatre'" and "Za slobodni stih"<br />

(14). Part One of this study outlines Crnjanski's<br />

life and literar¥ career. civinc a context to the<br />

conditions under which he wrote. his place in Serbian<br />

literature. and the European backcround of his work.<br />

This is a necessary component since so little is known<br />

of Crnjanski and Serbian literature outside Yueoslavia.<br />

Part Two discusses his treatment of time in relation<br />

to his use of lancuace. narrative structure. and voice.<br />

Part Three examines the complex arrancements bv which<br />

his characters see themselves as subjects which have an<br />

eXistence in. and develop throuCh. time. and as SUbjects<br />

in the wider flow of historical events.<br />

The publication<br />

dates of his four major novels diVide them into two<br />

chronoloc1cal croups; the early novels Onevnik 0<br />

earnojevi6u (1921) and Seobe (1929). the later novels<br />

prUli kn#1, ••• oba (1962) and Roman 0<br />

Londonu<br />

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